Iain Banks: A BBC Radio Collection: Including The Wasp Factory, The State of the Art & Espedair Street: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Iain Banks: A BBC Radio Collection: Including The Wasp Factory, The State of the Art & Espedair Street audiobook runs 5.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Louise Beattie and John-Gordon Sinclair and others (about 3.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 5.6 hours of listening.
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| 30 min / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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What our data says
- At 5.6 hours, it runs longer than 53% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.
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About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf
381 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Iain Banks: A BBC Radio Collection: Including The Wasp Factory, The State of the Art & Espedair Street is an audiobook by Iain M. Banks: a 5.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Louise Beattie, John-Gordon Sinclair and Joseph McFadden and others, released June 26, 2025, on the Classics (Literature) and Psychological shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Louise Beattie, John-Gordon Sinclair, Joseph McFadden, Steven McNicoll, Antony Sher, Paterson Joseph
- Released
- June 26, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Classics (Literature), Psychological, Coming of Age
- ISBN
- 9781529954241
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Iain Banks: A BBC Radio Collection: Including The Wasp Factory, The State of the Art & Espedair Street audiobook?
Iain Banks: A BBC Radio Collection: Including The Wasp Factory, The State of the Art & Espedair Street runs 5.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.7 hours.
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Who narrates Iain Banks: A BBC Radio Collection: Including The Wasp Factory, The State of the Art & Espedair Street?
Iain Banks: A BBC Radio Collection: Including The Wasp Factory, The State of the Art & Espedair Street is narrated by Louise Beattie, John-Gordon Sinclair, Joseph McFadden and Steven McNicoll and others.